[jcifs] Re: SMB URL

Allen, Michael B (RSCH) Michael_B_Allen at ml.com
Thu Mar 27 11:55:58 EST 2003



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Christopher R. Hertel [SMTP:crh at ubiqx.mn.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:26 PM
> To:	Michael B. Allen
> Cc:	Stephan Kulow; jcifs at samba.org; samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject:	Re: [jcifs] Re: SMB URL
> 
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:42:34AM -0500, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> :
> > > The other part missing is the query handling. Currently libsmbclient relies
> > > on ~/.smb/smb.conf for the workgroup (which is a bit problematic when you
> > > want to copy files from one workgroup to another from a linux client ;(
> > > Above that it gives a ?WORKGROUP=COOLO - no such file
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand this. Do you mean domain? Does libsmbclient
> > support the forms:
> > 
> >   smb://domain;user:pass@server/share/path/to/file
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >   smb://workgroup/
> 
> I'm just throwing in a side-comment on terminology...
> 
> After a lot of discussion I (personally) have settled on the following:
> 
>   Workgroup:  The scope of the browse environment.
>   NT Domain:  An authentication domain.
> 
> It's flakey, but the terminology is flakey to begin with.
> 
	This is how I always distinguished workgroups and domains.

	Mike



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